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Home Stretch

December 19, 2024

Home Stretch This will be my last newsletter of 2024, so as usual, I’m feeling introspective about the year that’s been and hopeful about the year to come....

How to Part Clouds

October 30, 2024

How to Part Clouds I don’t know about you, but it’s been hard to focus lately. Anxiety is coming at me at multiple angles these days, and I won’t pretend a...

Pull Shapes

September 17, 2024

Pull Shapes During the pandemic, my boyfriend and I bought an exercise bike. It was more for mental health than physical health at the time, but seeing my...

What's Next

August 8, 2024

What’s Next A couple weeks ago, I saw a headline for a NYT op-ed that felt directed at me. It felt so targeted, in fact, that I did not click on it, at least...

Buzz

May 30, 2024

Buzz Two years ago, I wrote about how much I dislike summer and how, despite my grumpiness by August, I repeat the cycle of anticipation and excitement every...

April, Come She Will

April 29, 2024

April, Come She Will April has been a strange month. I had a whole other essay nearly ready to send, but as I was putting my final edits on it I realized it...

Adulting Toward Bethlehem

March 29, 2024

Adulting Toward Bethlehem Yesterday I saw an article about Millennials who were born in 1990 feeling ready, finally, at 34, to buy their own home and “be an...

Not a Pretty Girl (reprise)

February 23, 2024

Not a Pretty Girl (reprise) This month I got to see Ani DiFranco perform in Hadestown on Broadway, and if you're in New York or will be soon, I highly...

So It Goes

January 26, 2024

So It Goes About a year ago I started writing short stories. I’d dabbled in short stories before, but last year is when an actual collection started to take...

Comedy Nerd

November 16, 2023

Comedy Nerd When I was little, I was convinced I’d grow up and marry a stand-up comedian. Not any one comedian in particular. Just a comedian. (Well, not a...